“It was very good,” said the Dalai Lama of the meeting, according to a report by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the official organ of the Dalai Lama’s government in exile. “I think we are really two old trusted friend[s]. I mentioned to him that now time has come for us to promote the sense of oneness among seven billion human beings. It is sad to see there are so much differences among people.”

As CNN noted, the meeting marked the sixth time the Dalai Lama and Obama, both Nobel Peace Prize laureates, have met in person. They last met at the White House in June 2016 when Obama was still president.

Kasur Tempa Tsering, a representative for the Dalai Lama, said the two men “dwelled on various topics pertaining to promoting peace in today’s world torn by strife and violence” during their 45-minute meeting.

“To Obama, His Holiness said, ’You are not only a former US president but you are a Nobel laureate, you are young and you can do a lot. We should fulfil our aspiration for world peace. Maybe my generation will not see the results, but your generation will definitely see the results,” Tsering said.

The meeting comes about two months after the Dalai Lama expressed concern about the U.S. becoming more “selfish” and “nationalist” under President Donald Trump.

“The present president, in the very beginning he mentioned ‘America first.’ That sounded in my ear not very nice,” he said at a conference in October, according to the Washington Post.

“I actually have more [Twitter followers] than other people who use it more often,” Obama said, prompting laughter from the audience who viewed the comment as a a jibe against Trump. (Obama has 97.4 million followers on Twitter; Trump has 43.8 million).

“Don’t say the first thing that pops into your head, just have a little bit of an edit function, that’s wise for life generally,” Obama later advised social media users. “You see people getting in all kinds of trouble because they sent out some tweet and then they’re trying to erase it afterwards but somebody’s screenshot it and they’re getting embarrassed.”

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